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UNINA9910451056903321 |
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Autore |
Alcocer Rudyard J. |
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Titolo |
Narrative mutations : discourses of heredity and Caribbean literature / / Rudyard J. Alcocer |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-135-87565-0 |
1-280-17511-7 |
9786610175116 |
0-203-50352-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Caribbean fiction (Spanish) - History and criticism |
Caribbean fiction - History and criticism |
Heredity in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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NARRATIVE MUTATIONS Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heredity and Discursivity: From Pre-History to the Plantation; Chapter Two Misce-gene-nation: Heredity and the Rise of Pluralism in Caribbean Narrative; Chapter Three Talking Flowers and Flowering People: Narrative, Plant Genetics, and Caribbean Identity; Chapter Four Bound Bodies: The Struggle in Caribbean Narrative Against Biological Determinism; Chapter Five Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean |
Afterword Heredity, Narrative, and the Caribbean DiasporaNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ""race"" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature |
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